New Hollywood
New Hollywood primarily took place in this decade, also known for the Watergate break-in and the end of the Vietnam War
What were the 1970s?
This 1818 horror novel, oft adapted by directors as varied as Guillermo Del Toro and James Whale, is titled after the central scientist, not the monster featured within
What is Frankenstein?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws
Who is Steven Spielberg?
The only American to win the Palme D'Or twice, this director won in 1974 and 1979, neither for the mob trilogy that would gain him his long-term success
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
This adaptation of a Dashiell Hammett novel was the directorial debut of John Huston, named after the exciting MacGuffin contained within
What is the Maltese Falcon?
One of New Hollywood's best up-and-coming filmmakers was this man, who nearly quit directing after his film Taxi Driver indirectly caused the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, though his 1990 crime epic Goodfellas would go on to be considered one of the greatest films of all time
Who is Martin Scorsese?
This English author's work has been adapted into many films over the years, although she only wrote six full novels during her lifetime
Who was Jane Austen?
Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
The third Palme D'Or was given to this moody film noir, set in a postwar Vienna
What is the Third Man?
This 1950 Billy Wilder film, named after the prominent Hollywood street, was nominated in all four acting categories at the Oscars that following year
What is Sunset Boulevard?
The start of New Hollywood is generally considered to be this 1967 film about a pair of Depression era criminals, who, as they put it, "rob banks"
What is Bonnie and Clyde?
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is a loose adaptation of this 1899 novella by Joseph Conrad, detailing a nightmarish trip down the river in colonial Congo
What is Heart of Darkness?
Who is Jean-Luc Godard?
This transcendental meditation advocate and director of TV's Twin Peaks, won the 1990 Palme D'Or for his controversial film Wild At Heart
Who is David Lynch?
The 1947 film noir Out of the Past starred this successful leading man, known for his turn in The Night of the Hunter
Who was Robert Mitchum?
Sam Peckinpah's revisionist Western The Wild Bunch is set during this decade, in which the Punitive Expedition targeted Pancho Villa in an attempt to curb the Mexican Revolution and the Zimmermann telegram was sent
What were the 1910s?
This "diminutive" novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery was adapted into a 1974 film by Bob Fosse, of all people
What is The Little Prince?
Only Angels Have Wings and Rio Bravo
Who is Howard Hawks?
Two brothers from this country, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes, have won the Palme D'Or twice, whose capital, Bruxelles, titles a 2008 Martin McDonagh film
What is Belgium?
Noir was back! With this 1986 Coen Brothers film, considered a high point of neo-noir and the film start of Francis McDormand
What is Blood Simple?
This film, which prominently features the use of ragtime and conmen during the Great Depression, reunited Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and George Roy Hill after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
What is The Sting?
This director and poet's "Trilogy of Life" adapted three of the most famous medieval collections, the last finished shortly before his unsolved murder in 1975
Who was Pier Paolo Pasolini?
Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy and Let the Right One In
Who is Tomas Alfredson?
This sympathetic portrayal of Lombard peasants played by actual Lombard peasants would win Ermanno Olmi his only Palme D'Or win
What is The Tree of Wooden Clogs?
This 1950 Nicholas Ray noir features Humphrey Bogart as a drunk screenwriter
What is In a Lonely Place?